Harvard Kennedy School faculty disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent faculty publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, research papers, and public testimony.
Faculty Publications
Jung, Jongbin, Sam Corbett-Davies, Johann D. Gaebler, Ravi Shroff, and Sharad Goel. "Mitigating Included - and Omitted - Variable Bias in Estimates of Disparate Impact." .
Campanella, Edoardo, and John Haigh. "China Wants to Run Your Internet." Foreign Policy. August 25, 2023.
Risse, Mathias. "On the Role of Solar Geoengineering in Combatting Climate Change: Harvard University vs. Indigenous Voices." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-026, August 2023.
Acharya, Avidit, Matthew Blackwell, and Maya Sen. "Slavery, Politics, and Causality." August 24, 2023.
Cheema, Ali, Asim I. Khwaja, M. Farooq Naseer, and Jacob N. Shapiro. "Glass Walls: Experimental Evidence on Constraints faced by Women in Accessing Valuable Skilling Opportunities." August 24, 2023.
Risse, Mathias. "A Radical Reckoning with Cultural Devastation and Its Aftermath: Reflections on Wub-e-ke-niew’s We Have the Right to Exist." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-025, August 2023.
Shepard, Mark, and Myles Wagner. "Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment." August 23, 2023.
LegalBench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark for Measuring Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models
Guha, Neel, Sharad Goel, et al. "LegalBench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark for Measuring Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models." August 23, 2023.
Corbett-Davies, Sam, Johann D. Gaebler, Hamed Nilforoshan, Ravi Shroff, and Sharad Goel. "The Measure and Mismeasure of Fairness." Journal of Machine Learning Research 24 (2023): 1-117.
Elmendorf, Douglas, and Heidi L. Williams. "A serious case for dynamic scoring." Slow Boring, August 28, 2023.
Nair, Gautam, and Federico Sturzenegger. "Great Dilution: The Global Impact of the US Inflation Shock on Sovereign Debt." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-009, July 2022.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "Is the era of zero interest rates gone for good?" The Guardian, August 17, 2023.
Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges
Chetty, Raj, David J. Deming, and John N. Friedman. "Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-021, August 2023.
Grossman, Joshua, Sabina Tomkins, Lindsay C. Page, and Sharad Goel. "The Disparate Impacts of College Admissions Policies on Asian American Applicants." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-023, August 2023.
Chandra, Amitabh, Carrie H. Colla, and Jonathan S. Skinner. "Productivity Variation and Input Misallocation: Evidence from Hospitals." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-024, August 2023.
Juhász, Réka, Nathan J. Lane, and Dani Rodrik. "The New Economics of Industrial Policy." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-022, August 2023.
Olaberria, Eduardo, and Carmen Reinhart. "The Reversal Problem: Development Going Backwards." Credibility of Emerging Markets, Foreign Investors' Risk Perceptions, and Capital Flows. Ed. Álvaro Aguirre, Andrés Fernández, and Sebnem Kalemli-Özcan. Central Bank of Chile, 2023, 301-314.
Walt, Stephen M. "Here’s How Scared of China You Should Be." Foreign Policy, August 7, 2023.
Yemiscigil, Ayse, and Dana Born. "The Psychological Value of Leadership Development: Longitudinal Quasi-Experimental Evidence." Academy of Management Proceedings 2023.1 (August 2023): 19334.
Putnam, Robert D. et al. "Honoring Robert D. Putnam." Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 76.4 (Summer 2023): 28-36.
Mansbridge, Jane, André Bächtiger, Dario Castiglione, Lisa Disch, John Gastil, Mark Brown, Simone Chambers, Rainer Forst, and Alfred Moore. "Mark Warren: Between Realism and Aspiration—Democracy for the Twenty-First Century." Political Science Today 3.3 (August 2023): 24-31.
Solomonov, Nili, Jon Green, Alexi Quintana, Jennifer Lin, Katherine Ognyanova, Mauricio Santillana, James N. Druckman, Matthew A. Baum, David Lazer, Faith M. Gunning, and Roy H. Perlis. "A 50-state survey study of thoughts of suicide and social isolation among older adults in the United States." Journal of Affective Disorders 334 (1 August 2023): 43-49.
Cunningham, Edward, and Yunxin Li. "China’s Most Generous: Examining Trends in Contemporary Chinese Philanthropy." The Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia’s China Philanthropy Project, August 2023.
Walt, Stephen M. "Hollywood Runs—and Ruins—U.S. Foreign Policy." Foreign Policy, July 27, 2023.
Armona, Luis. "Online Social Network Effects in Labor Markets: Evidence from Facebook's Entry to College Campuses." Review of Economics and Statistics (July 24, 2023): 1-47.
Walt, Stephen M. "You See What You Want to See in Russia." Foreign Policy, July 21, 2023.
Pache, Anne-Claire, Julie Battilana, and Channing Spencer. "An Integrative Model of Hybrid Governance: The Role of Boards in Helping Sustain Organizational Hybridity." Academy of Management Journal (20 July 2023).
Norris, Pippa. "Cancel culture: Heterodox self-censorship or the curious case of the dog-which-didn’t-bark." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-020, July 2023.
Walt, Stephen M. "Cluster Bombs and the Contradictions of Liberalism." Foreign Policy, July 19, 2023.
Borjas, George, and Anthony Edo. "Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-019, July 2023.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "Is the US Economy Headed for a Soft Landing?" Project Syndicate, July 17, 2023.
Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. "How Hubert Humphrey Tried to Make Minneapolis, and America, Less Racist." Review of Into the Bright Sunshine, by Samuel G. Freedman. New York Times, July 13, 2023.
de Jong, Jorrit, Eva Flavia Martínez Orbegozo, Lisa Cox, Hannah Riley Bowles, Amy C. Edmondson, and Anahide Nahhal. "Cross-Boundary Collaborations in Cities: Where to Start." Stanford Social Innovation Review (July 6, 2023).
Rosenbach, Eric, and Chris Li. "US and China must establish military communications." Boston Globe. July 3, 2023.
Hausmann, Ricardo, and Ketan Ahuja. "A more globally minded European green industrial policy." Sparking Europe’s new industrial revolution: A policy for net zero, growth and resilience. Ed. Simone Tagliapietra and Reinhilde Veugelers. Bruegel, 2023.
Levy, Dan, Theodore Svoronos, and Mae Klinger. "Two-Stage Examinations: Can Examinations Be More Formative Experiences?" Active Learning in Higher Education 24.2 (July 2023): 79-94.
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin, and Maxwell Palmer. "Driving turnout: the effect of car ownership on electoral participation." Political Science Research and Methods 11.3 (July 2023): 654-662.
Minson, Julia, Corinne Bendersky, Carsten de Dreu, Eran Halperin, and Juliana Schroeder. "Experimental studies of conflict: Challenges, solutions, and advice to junior scholars." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 177 (July 2023): 104257.
Rodrik, Dani. "Productivism and new industrial policies: learning from the past, preparing for the future." Sparking Europe's New Industrial Revolution. Ed. Simone Tagliapietra and Reinhilde Veugelers. Bruegel, 2023.
Fung, Vicki, Mary Price, Emory Wolf, Joseph P. Newhouse, and John Hsu. "The Affordability Of Individual-Market Health Insurance In California Under The American Rescue Plan Act, 2021." Health Affairs 42.7 (July 2023): 1011-1020.
Kong, Edward, Timothy J. Layton, and Mark Shepard. "Adverse Selection and (un)Natural Monopoly in Insurance Markets." July 1, 2023.
Besley, Timothy, Anders Jensen, and Torsten Persson. "Norms, Enforcement, and Tax Evasion." The Review of Economics and Statistics 105.4 (July 2023): 998-1007.
Chohlas-Wood, Alex, Madison Coots, Sharad Goel & Julian Nyarko. "Designing equitable algorithms." nature computational science 3.7 (July 2023): 601-610.
Pinto, Sanjay, Phoebe Strom, Daniel Schneider, and Kristen Harknett. "Mitigating the Impacts of Sexual Harassment: Evidence from a National Survey of Retail and Restaurant Workers." Shift Project Research Brief, July 2023.
Galeazzi, Clara, Grace Lam, and John P. Holdren. "Carbon capture, utilization, and storage: CO2 Transport costs and network infrastructure considerations for a net-zero United States." Environment and Natural Resources Program & Science Technology and Public Policy Program Paper Series, July 2023.
Aldy, Joseph, Todd D. Gerarden, and Richard L. Sweeney. "Investment versus Output Subsidies: Implications of Alternative Incentives for Wind Energy." Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 10.4 (July 2023): 981-1018.
Goldsmith, Stephen, and Khahlil A. Louisy. "A Framework for Reducing Place-Based Inequity." Data-Smart City Solutions, July 2023.
Dynan, Karen, and Douglas Elmendorf. "Changes in Racial Gaps in Retirement Security over Time." Wharton Pension Research Council Working Paper Series, July 2023.
Walt, Stephen M. "A Saudi-Israeli Peace Deal Isn’t Worth It." Foreign Policy, June 27, 2023.
Allison, Graham. "Kyiv must seize this moment. Otherwise, stalemate might be inevitable." The Washington Post, June 25, 2023.